The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-26

| the first step towards the reorganization OF
the system on a solid financial basis.
Arcadia celebrated her first anniversary
on May 10. One year ago Arcadla was
wilderness, to-day 1t is the largest Town Oh
the Florida Southern railway south OF Bar
tow. During the past year over 100 build
ings have been erected valued at over SlOO,-
600. Arcadia has two good cav and Plan
ing mills, and another going up. Nearly All
the lumber used on the big hotel ana
wharveS at Trabue come from this town
The Herald, published at Point Pinellas,
takes the place of the Sea Breeze, lately
published at the same place. The Sea
Breeze came in puifs uncertain, ana per-
haps could not raise the wind, and SO went
under, but the Herald IS well equipped,
having Mr.. r. E. Neeld as its editor and
II. M. Longstreth publisher. The editor OF
the Sea Breeze has retired from active
journalism aud has taken homestead on
Long Key.
The district Sunday school convention, in
session for the last four days in Madison,
has been largely attended, and the Sunday
school interest has been very much revived.
The Local. force has been assisted by the kew.
Mr. Marshall, from Monticello, and Mr..
Reppard from Savannah, Ga. These gen,
tlemen, by their zeal in Sunday school
work and their excellent Christian charac-
tiers, have very much endeared themselves
to the people of Madison county.
The Marshal of Waldo arrived in Jack
| sonville Monday morning with negro by
the name of Charles Williams, who was
| captured at that place the previous evening,
| and who is charged with being one OF the
gang who recently engaged so extensively
IN robbing the freight cars of the FLORIDA
| Railway and Navigation system. 1t was
said that Williams lived at Baldwin with
tXbO wa Instrumental
| causing his detection and arrest. he is now
In the Duval county jail.
| The yacht race at Jacksonville between
| the Ella owned by j. Mcdonald, and the
Tempest" owned by William Dempsey,
| sailed Tuesday afternoon, resulted IN the
| Tempest carrying off the laurels of the
| day. The course was eighteen miles in
length, and the boats made fair time con-
| sidering the light breeze. At the finish of
the race the 'tTempest" came to the buoy
only eight minutes ahead of the ELLA.
| Both boats We're shad rugged, and the
amount won by the winning boat was 500.
The most important criminal case on the
| docket at Vernon last week was that against
negro for an attempted assassination OF a
white man. The jury found him not guilty
and the prisoner was discharged. The grand
| jury failed to find true bill against the Car
terville rioters, the eight negroes who were
bound over to await the action of the grand
| jury in the Justice Court at Chipley. The
| States Attorney, however, has held them
under $500 bond. Being members of the
Knights of Labor, they have succeeded in
giving the necessary bond, and are now out
of prison.
| d. w. Crosby, who owned some valuable
property on Drayton Island, in Putnam
county, has just sold the same to a North
ern gentleman. The home place was sold
| for $50, 900, and the grove, little below the
home place, sold for $4,000 making as a
total for the whole property the good round
sum of $40, 900. The price was paid part in
cash and the remainder in stock of an old
established and paying manufacturing es-
| Enlistment. The property has been turned
over to the new owner, and his agent is now
in charge of it, This property is very yalu-
able and desirable, and sold for good
price.
The citizens of Riverside, f1ourishing
| little settlement up on the Ocklawaha river,
are honest people, if reports be true. A gem
| tleman from Illinois has been running a
store up there for the past two years, which
| was conducted in such free and easy man
ner that nearly everybody in the settlement
became indebted to the proprietor. A week
or so ago the gentleman determined to go
back to his old home and sold out the store,
and started around to collect up the accounts
that had accumulated on his books. Last
week he left for his home with every dollar
that was due him in his pocket, not a man
or woman in the whole neighborhood failing
TO pay him all they owed.
Members of the Jacksonville Board of
Trade have been approached on the sugges-
ton made by Mayor Burbridge, to co-ope-
rate with him in the construction of build
ing at the corner of Forsyth and Ocean
streets, to be used as a store, opera house,
Board of Trade and lodge rooms, and strong
ly indorse the scheme and think it practi-
cable. Mr. Burbridge, the owner of the
lot, which is about ITO feet square, proposes
to give lease on it for twenty years. He
will pay for the cost of the first story, which
he will use as a grocery store. The plan
then is for the Board of Trade or some other
corporation to construct the other two
stories, to be used as an opera house. The
Board of Trade, and lodge rooms will be on
the second and third stories respectively,
and entirely separate and apart from the
opera house.